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@spydeyrch

InfiniteMac community contributor with 26 recorded dispatches, 2 lead technical dossiers (23,646 direct reads), participating in discussions reaching 83,212 historical readers.

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Author Reads 23,646 Ranked #471 · 2 dossiers

Thread Reach 83,212 Ranked #2,388 in reach

Lead Dossiers 2 11,823 avg reads / dossier

Member Number #4,125 Joined 2009-01-05

Active Window 2009 2009-01-07 → 2009-08-09

Preserved Forum Signature & OSx86 Rig

Archive Standing: #291 of 6,691 by Dispatches (26 notes) · #471 of 3,454 by Author Readership (23,646 reads across 2 dossiers) · #2,388 by Thread Reach (83,212 cumulative reads)
InfiniteMac ID: Member #4,125 · Joined 2009-01-05
Location: Beaverton, OR
Interests: Mountain Biking, Climbing, Hiking, Parkour
Hardware & Kernel Topics: Voodoo / XNU Kernel (7) · AMD OSx86 (6) · Retail DVD / USB (6) · AHCI / SATA (3) · ATI Radeon (3) · Chameleon / Boot-132 (3)
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Frequent Thread Collaborators: @dnyanesh (3) @lanceomni (3) @Imkantus (3) @Hara Taiki (2) @brdude @JA37VGN @evil g @Verbunk @drxander @guiggess @tellis006 @nfoav8or @LawlessPPC @tham50

Dispatches by Mac OS X Collection

Distribution across 2 technical boards

Leopard 10.5

20 (77%)

10.X Core

6 (23%)

Lead Dossiers Authored by @spydeyrch (2)

23,646 cumulative reads on threads started by @spydeyrch

Dossier Title & Summary	Collection	Readership
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) Hey y'all. How ya doing? I am new to this forum. And pretty much new to the whole OSX86 scene. I have a little experience now but not much. I have been visiting insanelymac.com and hackint0sh.org quite a bit to try and find some answers to…	Leopard 10.5	13,906 reads 2009-01-07 · 24 notes
Help -- Retail Install via Boot-132 for AMD I am looking for some help/direction/advice. I can install iDeneb v1.4 on my system, no problem. I have been able to install it OTB to both an internal HDD (Sata in AHCI mode) and to an external USB HDD. During the install I have to select…	10.X Core	9,740 reads 2009-08-07 · 12 notes

Field Notes & Technical Dispatches (24)

Direct links into threads where @spydeyrch contributed solutions & commentary

Thread & Dispatch Excerpt	Collection	Date & Reach
iDeneb 10.5.5 on Asus M3A78-EM “GREAT! I am glad to hear that! It is very satisfying once everything just works. Have you found any kexts for your audio and gpu? Now that you have everything installed. I would recommend updating to the voodoo 9.5 kernel. You should be abl…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-22 55,119 dossier reads
iDeneb 10.5.5 on Asus M3A78-EM “...and integrated ATI Raedon HD 3200 GPU. ...so I simply skipped everything and went with the installation. Let me know how it went. I am interested to see how your GPU is fairing, seeing as you didn't choose a kext for it. I found a couple…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-17 55,119 dossier reads
iDeneb 10.5.5 on Asus M3A78-EM “Make sure that you chose the AMD patch and a kernel when you install. I would recommend the XNU 9.4 kernel that is on the install dvd. Once you get that installed and working, then you can trouble shoot your LAN and audio. do you know what …”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-16 55,119 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Thanks for the quick response nfoav8or, I appreciate it. Quick question, n00b question again :, how do I go about re-installing the bootloader? Thanks!”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-13 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Ok, so after I got time machine going and backed-up my good install , I decided to attack the issues of my audio (ADI AD2000B), chipset (AMD 790FX/SB750), LAN (Marvell 88E8056) that goes buggy when I update to voodoo 9.5.0 , my eSata contro…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-13 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Ok, so it looks like I got time machine working. I actually didn't have to do anything. I do have it backing up to the same HDD as my osx86 is installed on but to partition 2. So far it is working! YAY! No if I could only get my firewire wo…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-13 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “I would prefer to get time machine up and running that way I could back up everything that I have running right now stable right now with out having to reinstall if something goes wrong, such as an update or etc. Right now if I select a dri…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-13 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Ok guys, Thanks for your help and patience with my stupid questions. I followed your advice nfoav8or and LawlessPPC. I am now in normal mode and it works just fine. There are only a couple small issues: If I don't run -v at the boot prompt …”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-13 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Dude, you're awesome! Thanks very much for your input. I will try your suggestions once I get home. Also, I will check out the console program. Just from the name, I assumed that you were referring to the terminal, but silly me, if you were…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-09 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Oh, one more thing. Thanks for putting up with my annoying questions. What can I say, I am a n00b at this. Oh, and where in the console can I find those boot logs? Any commands that I need to get to them? Thank again, you have been a HUGE h…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-09 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Thanks for the quick reply Lawless. So I understand from your previous post that the graphics glitches (bubbles, stipes, boxes, etc) are due to the graphics kext not funtioning properly. And thanks for the great step by step proccess on how…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-09 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “One quick question for you nfoav8or and/or Lawless, do you think that the problem of me having to boot into safe boot (safe mode) is due to the graphics card drivers having an issue? Cause to tell you the truth, when I do boot into safe mod…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-09 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “HCL) may help to counter the ability to login to your system.QUOTE] I am connecting using my onboard LAN via Marvell. It hasn't given me any issues so far. I currently don't have any spare parts, just got done building a system for a family…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-09 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Sweet, this is great, being able to get some real help! Thank you a ton! Ok, so I am going to try nfoav8or's advice first then I will try LawlessPPC's advice. The whole reason I am trying to get this to run is for a few different things. On…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-09 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Let me just say … WOW! That is a lot of VERY useful information, just the kind of thing that I have been looking for. Over the last month or two, all I would get at other forums is just a link to another post that presumablly has the answer…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-08 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Ok, so I rebooted and used -v -f, I didn't see any kernel panics or any other errors, after os x loaded everything, it went to the blueish screen again. The HDD LED would flash showing activity then after a while it would stop. No matter wh…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-08 13,906 dossier reads
/Guidance w/some issues (phenom) “Thanks for the response. So I deleted the extensions cache, like you said and just to make sure, I did it a second time. The second time it said that no such file or folder exists. The strange thing is that when I typed in the first line to…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-08 13,906 dossier reads
Help -- Retail Install via Boot-132 for AMD “Awesome, Thanks for the help and for pointing me to that link. I will check it out and see what I can do!”	10.X Core	2009-08-09 9,740 dossier reads
Help -- Retail Install via Boot-132 for AMD “That is understandable. I have been there too. I just hope that I can get this "retail" install to work properly.”	10.X Core	2009-08-09 9,740 dossier reads
Help -- Retail Install via Boot-132 for AMD “Yes, I know that if it doesn't have a vanilla kernel, it is technically not a "retail" install. But alot of AMD users out there who have an osx86 install understand what I mean. So yup, it is just counting beans as Imkantus said. But no big…”	10.X Core	2009-08-08 9,740 dossier reads
Help -- Retail Install via Boot-132 for AMD “@TE Sorry but did you maybe enter: "YOUR_INSTALL_DVD_UUID_HERE" in words? Hahahaha, no, I didn't type in the words directly from the guide. Although I can see how it might appear that I did it that way, hahahaha. I input the actual UUID fro…”	10.X Core	2009-08-07 9,740 dossier reads
Help -- Retail Install via Boot-132 for AMD “Any takers? Any one willing to help? So, I was thinking of trying it with the bare minimums. Also, there are a few kexts on the boot-132 disc image that I don't know what they do.”	10.X Core	2009-08-07 9,740 dossier reads
How to type in the Terminal “Terminal auto hides your password entry, type as normal and press enter and it will go through. Or…you could say it like that. Nice and clear and to the point. hehehe ^_^ sorry about my explination, sometimes I draw things out longer than t…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-14 4,447 dossier reads
How to type in the Terminal “So, when you are in the console and use sudo for the first time, it will ask you for your password, which you probably have experienced. If I understand your issue correctly, when you type your password, nothing happens, right? Now, is it t…”	Leopard 10.5	2009-01-14 4,447 dossier reads